CBS: Stormy Daniels '60 Minutes' Interview Needs More Work Before It Airs

Source: Talking Points Memo/AP

By Associated Press | March 13, 2018 10:23 am

NEW YORK (AP) — The head of CBS News said Tuesday that a “60 Minutes” interview with adult film star Stormy Daniels is on its way but that more journalistic work needs to be done on the story.

News President David Rhodes’ statement at a conference in Israel Tuesday was the first time CBS publicly confirmed it had interviewed Daniels, who has alleged an extramarital affair with Donald Trump before he became president. Trump has denied this. Michael Avenatti, lawyer for the actress, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, last week tweeted a picture of himself, Clifford and CBS interviewer Anderson Cooper.

No air date has been set for the interview.

Rhodes, in remarks reported by Variety, said he could not imagine what the basis would be for any legal action by Trump’s team to prevent the interview from airing. BuzzFeed had reported that Trump’s lawyers were considering seeking an injunction to stop it.

16. "Rhodes statement...was the 1st time CBS publicly confirmed it had interviewed Daniels"...

Assuming this is correct, was there ever a formal date set for the airing of the program? That involves releasing their content schedule to a variety of entities, which does make it public, more or less. Was there just an assumption that it would air on the next upcoming date?

It may just be that their attorneys asked that they double-check some aspect of the interview. (And given that various parties involved here (except Trump himself) keep yapping publicly, it would not be surprising it something else caught the lawyers' attention.) Given the office in question, regardless of who occupies it, the attorneys have to be going the belt plus two pairs of suspenders route.